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Your 12 minute HR lesson — 72 episodes

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Title
1

Turning toxics

2

Watercooler 4: saying the wrong thing

3

Learning to do is hard

4

Watercooler episode: settlements

5

Corporate star signs

6

Starting well

7

The autonomy agreement

8

Watercooler- When to jump in

9

The lost art of listening (part 2)

10

Money illusion

11

Watercooler: Should managers be liked?

12

Spinning plates

13

HR as PR

14

Letters to fish

15

Odd couples

16

Handling banter

17

The grandma test

18

The double spenders of good work

19

Schrodinger's Representative

20

Offering settlements

21

Redemption Arcs

22

Hanlon's Razor

23

Fortnight

24

I would prefer not

25

Ambushes

26

Chapters

27

Playing with Jacks

28

Popping personal bubbles of reality

29

Avoiding lose-lose situations

30

Heating up & cooling down others

31

Limp norms

32

Thinking about others

33

Go to the mountain

34

Anticipating employee strategies

35

Body cams

36

4 to the floor

37

Fear of outside our control

38

Moving problems

39

Squeaky wheels

40

Calm, hard, Words

41

Special Episode: AI: Spade or Subcontractor?

42

Why emails are bad

43

The lost art of listening

44

Lax to strict

45

Simple Solutions Suck

46

Magic words

47

Riding shotgun on risky decisions

48

Flawed mentors

49

P&C or HR?

50

I can't explain fast car

51

Don't listen to this one

52

Double header head trip

53

Positive fish

54

Taking charge with calm

55

Strategising up

56

The secret sauce of sampling

57

Rethinking Risk

58

Dinosaurs and the Holidays Act

59

Low hanging fruit

60

Home again

61

The engineering metaphor

62

The Hulk, the Law and You.

63

Whitney: the greatest

64

Can't live there

65

Best fit or practice?

66

Maslow's Hammer

67

Balancing needs

68

A pause button

69

It depends

70

What does ER mean?

71

What does sorry mean?

72

The wrong tools